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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This person who will soon be arriving is what?
(a) The first of many prisoners.
(b) The only man of his kind.
(c) A kind man.
(d) An Irish soldier.

2. This story explores themes relating to what?
(a) The nature of imprisonment, preconception, and honor.
(b) Sin and degradation.
(c) Compassion and love.
(d) The war between the IRA and the British.

3. What circumstances do Meg and Pat discuss?
(a) The circumstances by which they came to work at this boarding house.
(b) How horrible Monsewer's mother was.
(c) The manipulative circumstances of the treaty's signing.
(d) Monsewer's move to Ireland as a child.

4. What does his missing leg have to do with his conversation with Meg?
(a) He should not be talked to rudely because he lost his leg as a soldier.
(b) Meg does not know the entire story surrounding his missing leg and she should be quiet.
(c) He cannot help that he was in a car accident and should not be teased.
(d) She should be careful when she has an infection, or she could end up without a leg too.

5. Why had Teresa left a convent?
(a) She fell in love with one of the nuns.
(b) She had decided against becoming a nun.
(c) She had fallen in love with a student priest.
(d) She did not find herself attractive in a habit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who speaks angrily to the characters?

2. What do Meg and Pat say Monsewer studied?

3. How does Pat say he lost his leg?

4. When he is finished, he and Meg talk further about what?

5. Why does Meg tell Teresa to stop thinking about this person's fate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the IRA officer come in and do?

2. How does the play end?

3. How does Meg react to Princess Grace's news? How do the others respond?

4. What do Pat and Meg think about the kidnapping of the British soldier?

5. What story does Teresa tell?

6. For whom does the Soldier mistake Miss Gilchrist? Why?

7. How does the conversation between Teresa and the Soldier end?

8. How do the other characters react, when Meg finishes her song?

9. Why does Meg appear? What does the Officer think of this?

10. What does Miss Gilchrist do for the Soldier?

(see the answer keys)

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